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Competent City Meets Job Crisis It Is conceded generally that Cincinnati is one or the most competently governed of American cities. It operates under the city manager plan, the adoption of which was due in no small part to years of agitation by the Cincinnati Post, a Scripps-Howard newspaper. In the National Municipal Review is an article by City Manager Sherill and Director of Public Welfare Hoehlcr describing the manner in which Cincinnati met the unemployment crisis of last winter. This shows pretty conclusively that a city which is well governed politically will take enlightened and effective action toward its social and economic obligations. Just how did Cincinnati approach the problem of unemployment? In the first place, it was taken as axiomatic that periodic unemployment crises are inevitable under our present economic system. Therefore, permanent machinery for dealing with the problem had been set up before any emergency arose. A standing committee on stabilizing employment was created, to deal with general and special phases of the unemployment problem. < Subcommittees were created to handle particular phases of the subject. One of these was a fact-find-ing committee which took frequent employment censuses of Cincinnati. As early as May, 1929, it found that only 38 per cent of the employable citizens were employed regularly. This permanent committee on unemployment worked with the employers of the city endeavoring to get the latter to adopt statesmanlike policies in regard to stabilizing employment. Educational work was conducted to show the disastrous results of unemployment to the economic life of the city at large. Asa result many of the larger business firms of Cincinnati voluntarily had adopted schemes for stabilizing employment before the crash came in October and November. When the crisis arose the already existing and smoothly running machinery was put into more active operation. Employment was staggered to avoid complete laying off any larger number of men. Public work was begun in vigorous fashion. Never before was so much executed as in the winter of 1929-30. An employment committee took up the problem of getting temporary jobs for the unemployed. The department of public welfare and the community chest subsidized useful jobs for heads of families in public and semi-public institutions. A special committee dealt with unemployed transients, treating them as an issue aside from Cincinnati's permanent unemployment problem. All these policies and acts did not, of course, keep the current depression away from Cincinnati. But it did help enormously to reduce the personal suffering and economic demoralization which otherwise would have existed. And this is about all that one can ask of a city government today.

Diplomacy and Drugs It may have been either Will Rogers or Hcywood Broun who first said that “a diplomat is a fellow who can refuse without declining." The latest activities of the League of Nation's advisory committee on opium point the wisdom of that observation. Since 1922 the committee has been charged with the task of curbing the illicit international trade in harmful narcotics. As long ago as 1923, it formally accepted "in principle" the declaration of the United States that effective control could be established only through drastic limitation of production. But after formally accepting the principle, the powers represented on the committee developed the theory that the growing of poppies and coca—the basis of all narcotics—was “a domestic question." "It was evident that the producing nations either were unable or were unwilling to limit the production of opium and coca leaves so that there would be no surplus available for purposes not strictly medicinal or scientific,” the United States delegation reported following its withdrawal from the Geneva conference in 1925. The delegation had been authorized to come home whenever it concluded that the European powers would not bind themselves to effective control measures. But no nation had declined to accept he central measures. They merely had refused. Last year the league council again suggested the projected limitation conference be held in December, 1930, providing, however, for postponement should any nation be unprepared at that time to present statistical data on its legitimate requirements. Through this device, some of the powers once again have refused to move—without, however, declining. Great Britain and others have advised the committee they will not be ready for the proposed meeting, me whole problem thus is thrown back upon the council. Two more years’ delay, at best, thus is achieved. Meanwhile, a traffic universally condemned by enlightened opinion expands in every quarter of the globe. Writhing and ground down by a curse from which they are powerless to free themselves, China and India wallow in political and social chao6. More advanced nations pay an ever-mounting toll in the atrocious crimes conceived by drug-crazed minds. Victims walk the streets of every American city by the hundreds. Thus does the neatly turned phrase of the diplomatic gentlemen, who can refuse without declining, help weave new chains for the enslavement of humanity. Against such cleverness, American opinion instinctively rebels.

Drought Relief President Hoover has the confidence and united approval of the nation in his efforts to handle the drought calamity. There are definite limits to the relief which the federal government, or any other agency, for that matter, can give. But within those limits the White House plans, already in motion, are encouraging. First, any kind of relief depends upon getting the facts of the situation. In fortunate contrast to the federal bungling of industrial unemployment fact* finding, the agriculture department is getting the facts in this emergency with a minimum of delay and with no mistaken effort to underestimate the seriousness of the situation. Second, the President is providing for easy federal credit for the affected areas, it being impossible under the law to make outright federal gifts. Third, he is co-operating with the individual states and co-ordinating their relief activities, preparatory to the White House conference of Governors. Fourth, he is acting with the constant advice of the chiefs of the three large farm organizations, thus providing effective teamwork between official and unofficial agencies. Fifth, he has facilitated the lowering of railway rates for the transportation of feedstuff* into the drought sections and for getting starving livestock cut of those areas. Speedy decision by the interstate

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commerce commission has approved these rate reductions, which now are being made by the railroads. Finally, the American Red Cross has been ordered to stand by for action. But nothing can save the nation from paying a heavy toll for this disaster, which grows with each succeeding rainless day. Though the farmers In twelve states will suffer most and longest, every one in the country will be affected. Not only will the city populations in the end pay more for milk, vegetables and meat, but the further reduced purchasing power of farmers will retard the revival of industry and of industrial employment. To argue, as some do, tl>at the loss of much of the corn crop will help the farmer by raising the price of the remainder is obviously short sighted. Twothirds of the corn crop is marketed in the form of hogs, which means that it is the farmer himself who must pay the increased corn prices. The fact that some farmers can feed the wheat surplus to hogs does not help much. But however serious the situation, it is no worse and indeed not so bad as economic disasters through which other nations and the United States have passed before. We are fortunate in being the richest country in the world, and the one most blessed by nature and natural resources. And we are not without the courage and initiative which overcome obstacles. That being true this is no time for despondency.

Mr. Woll and the Russians Just what does Matthew Woll think about the Amtorg Traqlng Company and the Russian business in America? From his public pronouncements, one would conclude that he shuns them as he would a leper. He has proclaimed his belief in Grover Whalen's Amtorg documents. He has asserted that he believes Amtorg to be agitating for overthrow of the American system of society and government. He lately has protested that we must not have any dealings with Russia, lest the Muscovite octopus shall overwhelm American trade and industry. So much for public consumption. But Mr. Woll is himself an American business man as well as a labor executive. He is president of the Union Labor Life Insurance Company. His firm naturally needs to get business. But we can not imagine that it would stoop to dealings with the Russian scum. Yet, lo and behold, the Amtorg Company just has published a photostatic copy of a letter written to it by Mr. Woll on May 5. This was three days after Whalen had published the awful Amtorg documents showing the treasonable acts of that company. Further, the letter was addressed to T. G. Grapfen, named in the documents as the chief rogue and scoundrel in Amtorg. Woll WTote Grapfen asking him to receive Duffy, general agent of his company, suggested that he take out a policy, and thanked him in advance for any favors. His letter follows: My dear Mr. Grapfen: This will introduce P. J. Duffy, general agent for the Union Labor Life Insurance Company, one of the important social developments of the American Federation of Labor and especially designed to arouse wage earners as to the necessity of life insurance. Asa prominent figure in the business world, I ask that you permit Mr. Duffy to discuss the matter with you, and although your insurance needs may be well covered, we w r ould appreciate having you as a policy holder in our company and to that extent aid us in the great service we have undertaken. The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is an old line legal reserve life insurance company, operating under the insurance laws of the state of New York. The company has the indorsement and approval of leaders of business and finance as well as that of many prominent executives of other life insurance companies. Your consideration of our proposition as presented by Mr. Duffy will be personally appreciated by Yours very sincerely, MATTHEW WOLL. If this is not “trading with the enemy” we do not know the meaning of those words. If anything more is needed to show Woll’s own private estimate of Amtorg, when he is not out headlining our salvation from Moscow, we do not know what it is. British police are said to be puzzled by the unusually large number of paintings stolen this year. So it seems even Britain is not above an oil scandal. Farmers in an Illinois town reported that potatoes they dug during the hot spell had been baked by the sun. After such a buhn, of course, the skin peeled itself.

REASON by ™ CK

THE estate of the late Chauncey M. Depew has been valued at $16,000,000 for purposes of taxation, Mr. Depew having made his fortune as a result of being connected with the New York Central railroad. a a a But this connection cost Mr. Depew something which he wanted more than all the money on earth, the presidency. It put him out of the running in the national Republican convention of 1888, the result being the nomination of Benjamin Harrison of Indiana. man Mr. Depew had another handicap almost as serious and it was his reputation as a wit. No matter w T hat ability he displayed in other directions, he could not escape being catalogued as an after-dinner speaker, and nothing more. it tt a HIS service as a senator from New York was sterile, much to the surprise of those who thought he was a statesman of high order, but he seemed to be oppressed by the fame his levity had brought him. a a a The gift of humor must be handled with care if one would go far in politics, many truly great statesmen having learned this to their sorrow, the most distinguished of them being Thomas Corwin of Ohio. a a a Thomas B. Reed of Maine was as great a wit as ever served in public life, but he was able to make it incidental to his massive qualities, and so it served him mightily in the rough and tumble of political strife. a a a IN every field, ven in writing, humor must be kept in the background, or it will prove a liability. We remember what the late Alfred Henry Lewis, famous in his days as the foremost skinner of public men, once said about it. j ram “If you would survive as a writer," said Lfewis, “never permit the public to regard you as a funny man. If you do. the -people will expect you to be side-splitting every time you write, and nobody can measure up to this.” a a a "Just be known as a writer and now and then throw in a funny line as it comes along and people will say: ’Why this man is not only a great writer: he is a marvelous humorist!’ ” So. we would say, if you-have the humor, don’t walk arm in arm with it; make it come along half a block behind you. .

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SCIENCE -BY DAVID DIETZ—-

Scientists Are Sharply Divided Over the Subject of How Long a Man Can Live. THE visit of Zaro Agha of Turkey to America serves to focus the spotlight of attention upon the subject of old age. Zaro says that he is 156 years old, that he never has tasted alcohol, that he has outlived eleven wives, that he became a father for the thirty-sixth time at the age of 96, and that he grew a third set of teeth at the age of 105. There is a battle raging in scientific circles today over the subject of old age. A minority, extremely forceful in pushing its point of view, holds that old age is pathological, that is, a condition of disease, and that old age can be staved off like any other disease. The majority of biologists, however, feel that old age is physiological, that is, a natural condition, and that nothing is to be done about it. This school feels that it is as natural for a man to grow old as It is natural for an infant to grow into an adult. The first school feels that there <s no reason why a man should not live to be 150 or 200 or eventually at some future time, 300 or 400 years old. The second school feels that man’s life span is very likely to remain always below or very near the century mark-

Advances r T > HE first school points to the wonderful advances which have been made in increasing the span of life of the average man. In the sixteenth century the expectancy of life at birth was 21. In the seventeenth century it had increased to 26. The eighteenth century brought it up to 34. Since then the advance of medical scence and sanitation has made a marvelous showing, in 1890 the expectancy of life was 43. In 1897 it was 45. in 1900 it was 49. In 1910 it was 51. Today it is 58. In other words, the span of life has been increased 37 years during the last four centuries. Certainly this looks like a bright and wonderful record. Members of the second school do not disagree with the foregoing; but at this point they sound a note of pessimism. They point out that most of the gains have been made in the saving of infants and young people. The gains have been made through the conquest of plagues and epidemics and particularly the epidemics and other diseases of childhood. On the other hand, they point to the apparent increase in heart disease and other so-called degenerative diseases, which are due to the breakdown of some vital organ, such as the liver or kidneys and such diseases as cancer. They do not think that there is an actual increase in the prevalence of these diseases or that the human race is becoming more susceptible to them, but merely that we are saving more young people from death by the disease of childhood. Consequently, they live to 60 or 70 or 80 and then succumb to the diseases of old age, the degenerative diseases.

Rate T"\R. EUGENE LYMAN FISK, medical director of the Life Extension Institute, summed up the situation as follows: "In the last 100 years nothing has been added to the life expectancy of men of 52 and beyond. To be exact, science has given the man of 50 just one more month of life since 1789.” Dr. Guy L. Kiefer, public health authority, says, “While the child death rate is falling, the death rate from the diseases that play greatest havoc during the working span of life has been increasing. Death rates from diabetes, nephritis, and heart disease have been mounting steadily.” Anew and interesting view upon the span of life has been suggested by the researches of Dr. Raymond Pearl, famous biologist of the Johns Hopkins university. Dr. Pearl thinks that each person is born with so much life energy, as it were. The actual number of years which the person lives depends upon the rate at which he lives. He can burn up his energy slowly or quickly, but he is finished when the energy is gone. In conclusion, perhaps it should be stated that scientists generally discredit the claims of Zaro Agha. They feel that all such claims at present are the result of faulty memories or faulty records. The New York Life Insurance Company states that in its own experience it never has found satisfactory proof of claims of similar nature. “Our actuarial department has investigated many persons who claim to have lived 110 years or more and in no case could find any adequate proof," the company states.

Questions and Answers

Where was Michael Arlen born and educated? What books other than "The Green Hat” has he written? Michael Arlen was bom in an Armenian village about thirty-two years ago. He was taken to London when 5 years old and educated in London schools. For eleven years he struggled along working for newspapers or magazines in London as a free lance writer. His first book, “The London Venture,” was published before he was 20, but it was not until he wrote "These Charming People” that he flashed into prominence. Following this success came "The Greeu Hat” and "Mayfair.” The “Dancer of Paris” followed. He married Countess Atlanta Mercati in May, 1928. * How much does the normal human heart slow up in old age? How much faster does it beat during activity than when the body is at rest? The average number of heart beats a minute in infancy is 100 to 120: in childhood. 80 to 100: in youth and adult life, the average is about 72 when at rest; in extreme old age the number may increase or decrease according to the physical condition of the individual. Dur-

BELIEVE ITORNOT

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not,” which appeared in Saturday’s Times: Novellus Torquatus Drank Three

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Indigestion Often Is Puzzling Study

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IN many cases of indigestion it is extremely difficult to make certain whether the patient is suffering fro a disease of the stomach, a disease of the gall-bladder, an inflammation of the appendix, or a nervous disorder without manifest changes in the stomach itself. There are people who find it impossible to eat or to swallow their food without any definite change being visible in the esophagus, the tube which carries the food to the stomach, or in the stomach itself. In such instances, the internist must apply all methods of examination that he knows in order to give the patient a certain diagnosis because the correct treatment can be given only after a certain diagnosis has been made. There still are many unexplained conditions demanding research by the medical profession for their solution. There are instance in which the stomach fails to supply the proper secretions, and the reasons for this failure are unknown. In the laboratories of physiology throughout the world today scientists are making such studies to aid further the happiness of mankind. The procedures that apply for study of the stomach apply also for study of the intestines. However, it is only within recent years I

IT SEEMS TO ME BY H broun D

Heywood Broun, who conducts this column, is on his vacation. Durinsr his absence Joe Williams, sports editor of tae New York Telerram, will pinch-hlt for Broun. —The Editor. BY JOE WILLIAMS IT was one of those inviting places in the 40s or the 50s or maybe the 60s. Our elders would have called it a speak. There was a bar, tables, music, singers. Over in one corner was a stuffed eagle, mute symbol of decadent individualism and personal whim. It looked out on a scene of liveliness with glass eyes, cold, unseeing. People came and went, men and women. It was interesting to study them. Banging away at a Tom Thumb piano was a cadaverous-looking youth- Thin, purple lips. Eyes that blazed and danced. A strange, fascinating contrast. A song: “I Remember You From

ing activity there are about ten beats a minute more than when the body is at rest. From what is bird's soup made? From the nests of a species of swift or swiftlet, of the Malay archipelago. It is a great delicacy in China. The nest has the shape and size of a half teacup, and the appearance of fibrous gelatine. It is composed of mucilaginous substance secreted by special glands, and is not, as was formerly thought, made from'seaweed. In which book .of the Bible is the story of Tubal-Cain? Genesis 4:22. How many persons were killed in the San Francisco earthquake and fire in 1906? Four hundred and fifty-two persons were killed; 266 by collapsing buildings, 177 by fire and 9 by incidental causes. Who wrote the book called “The Hole in the Wall?” Frederick J. Maclsaac, an American. Has the United States government ever issued R9O gold pieces? No.

On request, sent with stamped addressed envelope, Mr. Ripley will furnish proof of anything depicted by him.

Gallons of Wine at Once—Novellus Torquatus of Mediolanum (Milan) could drink three congii (gallons) of wine at one draught.

that it has become possible to pass a tube through the stomach and into the intestines, withdrawing their secretions for study. Only recently have methods been devised for testing the rate at which food moves along the intestines, the bacteria that live there normally and abnormally, the obstructions, paralyses and many other disturbances which manifest themselves by serious symptoms. There are forms of constipation due to interference with the digestion in the intestine, other forms which are due to disturbance of the motility in the intestine, and some forms which are merely the results of bad habits. There are conditions in which it is exceedingly dangerous to eat food with too high an amount of roughage and conditions in which an increase in roughage provides the road to successful cure. Within the last twenty-five years methods have been developed for changing the nature of the germs that live in the intestine. Metchnikoff’s original idea that the bacillus bulgaricus was the normal inhabitant and that its presence was synonymous with long life has been changed to emphasis on another germ called acidophilus. Attempts to implant the acidophilus germ in the intestine brought out the information that

' Somewhere ” Beautiful. Maybe Berlin wrote it. No. Fellow named Leslie. Funny how these beautiful trivalities in music are suggestive of Berlin. Perhaps it is in the atmosphere. From Nigger Mike’s to the Vanderhom Club is a long jump, but it’s on the same line. Ten years from now some crooner will run away with a pedigreed Park avenue heart and metropolitan city editors will send up to the library for clips on the MackayBerlin romance, yellowed and romantic with age. Agile-minded rewrite men will distill yarns with nimble fingers on how Cupid did it again all over against anew and different background. a a a Awful Women TWO men at the end of the bar, heavy-jowled, watery-eyed, sim-ple-natured. “Things have changed a lot since prohibition. The old spots were the best. No women around. Awful creatures, especially after two or three Manhattans. Always want to sing or dance. “There was something about the old barrooms, too, that you don’t feel nowadays. Looked different. Felt different. Were different. A waiter who reads the headlines suggests a gin drink. “Fresh off the city garbage scows,” he laughs. “You can’t go wrong on it.” It tastes well and you finally find an excuse to think kindly of Tammany. ana Three Biades AT a nearby table are three young blades and a girl. They have tickets for the fight. One more round and they will go. “Say, Mister Sousa, will you play the ‘St. Louis Blues’?" Long, chalky flrgers flutter across the keyboards, “Peelin’ tomorrow lak ah feel today ” the soft, barbaric lamentations of this jazz masterpiece fill the room. One of the young men is from the couth. He wears his geographic caste on his sleeve in the loud, professional manner. "Sure I know the fellow that wrote that piece- Name was Handy. A Beal street nigger. Say. down where I came from ha couldn’t walk on the same side of tnu street with

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According to Pliny, Novellus was known as the “Tricongius” for this drinking feat. Tuesday—First, Catch the Hare.

certain types of food were necessary to secure success implants. At the lower end of the intestine the development of varicose veins, commonly called hemorrhoids, represents an extremely disturbing modern condition. Fifteen years ago only quacks attempted to treat this condition by injective method. Their methods were found to be dangerous and infrequently fatal. Continued study over a period of twenty-five years has developed several methods of injection, and particularly safe methods of prompt operation. The hemorrhoids now are removed undei* local anesthetics with prompt healing and with the loss of only a few days from work. They can, moreover, be removed by electrical desiccation, as well as 'by injection methods, various physicians using various methods according to their experience. Among the unsolved questions of modern medicine is relationship of obstruction of the bowel to the development of serious symptoms of shock; the exact relationsnip of putrefaction in the bowel to the onset of various degenerative diseases, and particularly the control of infestation of the intestines by worms, conditions which are extremely common in tropical and oriental countries, but which now only are beginning to be found in increasing numbers in this country.

Ideals and opinions expressed in tills column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

! us, and now up here with you people he’s a big shot." “I hate to see de ev’nin’ sun go down ” Tile fellow who said it was a small world was right. You remembered Handy yourself from back home. You remembered also that everybody in the town had a great deal of respect for him. nan Handy, Genius YOU remembered that the late Colonel C. P. J. Mooney, one of the south’s most gifted newspaper men, once wrote a fine piece about him, his honored place in native southern music and his raw, unquestioned genius. It wasn’t often that a black man could get the colonel to write anything about him. But Handy was —well, Handy was different, and as the colonel used to say, he had something that God gave him. Another call for the waiter. “Hurry ’em up ’cause we gotta see that fight,” demands the garrulous young man from the south. “What fight?” mumbles a companion propped up unsteadily across from him. Sitting alone, reading a newspaper, is a squat-sized, wide-shoul-dered man, with jet-black hair and rugged, twisted features. Looking at him you think of Wolheim, the rowdy hero of the films. But maybe he isn’t an actor. He looks hard enough to be a desperade, a gangster, a rodney man. nan Caterpillar PINNED to his left lapel is an ir-regular-shaped emblem, a thin curved bar of silver. It isn’t hard to tell what that is—a caterpillar and it means that at some time or other, possibly several, the wearer has leaped out of a cracked-up plane in full flight. My waiter knew him. He was Lieutenant . He had flown with Rickenbacher in France. came back from the war to find the girl he had left behind had married a pie-throwing comic in Hollywood. He’s a lone wolf these days. He is never seen in the company of any one. Once in a while he talks to Berta, the barkeep. Generally about the next war(Copyright, 1330, by The Time*!

.AUG. 11, 1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS

It Would Seem That the Way to Man's Brain as Weil as to His Heart Is Through His Stomach. LAST Thursday the body of a murdered man was taken from the Chicago drainage canal. Ii was decomposed so badly that the authorities couldn't tell to what race it belonged, much less -its age or personal appearance. By extracting a tooth and then subject-' , ing it to violet rays. Dr. August J. Paccini of the Northwestern university crime detection laboratory established the fact that the body was that of a Chinese. The material gave off a yellow phosphorescent light, he says, whereas, the light would have been greenish had it come from a white" man, and reddish if from a Negro. Interesting as all this may be from a scientific viewpoint, it leaves a lot* to be done if crime detection is the object. Having discovered that the victim was a Chinese, the Chicagopolice dismissed the whole episode as just one more tong killing and " let it go at that. * * * Stomach Comes First EIGHT professors of Teachers’ college, Columbia university, make a record of serving 200 of their ’ colleagues beefsteak in five minutes fiat. Does this prove the advantage of higher education, or has higher education spoiled eight good waiters?And who shall say that good waiters are unimportant, even from an intellectual view'point? Sharehodlers of the Grossman Sausage Company of Coburg, Germany, who held their annual meeting Saturday, were little disturbed by the fact that no dividends would be paid. When they found that the traditional free lunch of pig knuckles, sauerkraut and beer would not be served they became incensed and unmanageable. It would seem that the way to man’s brain as well as his heart lies through the stomach.

Drop That Conceit - - DR. JOHN M. THOMAS, president of Rutgers university, ad-, vises men and women who will enter college next September to "leave their conceit at home-” He might' have gone farther and advised them to leave their conceit on the campus when they are graduated. Conceit is not an affliction peculiar to youth. The idea that, creased pants go very far is all wrong, as Dr. Thomas points out, so is the same idea with regard to degress and Greek letters. No one can afford to rest on his, laurels, whether they come from a haberdasher, a football coach, a fraternity house, or a faculty. Reed Gets Cheerful * A PENNSYLVANIA farmer caught with two stills in his spring ' house says it isn't true. He couldn’t have violated the law, he says,-be-cause the spring has gone dry. ) The stock ticker crowd has gone! to reading crop reports and grain j; quotations, which seems to disprove * the old adage that “a burned child : fears the fire.” Ex-Senator Reed of Missouri, who hasn’t seen anything bright or cheerful in existing conditions for the last twenty years, takes a German mike to inform humanity that the “depression” soon will be over. This drought certainly is getting serious. ? " tt tt tt Kidding Themselves PEOPLE throughout the world, resorting to an age-old mfithod[ of consoling themselves, “no matter how bad off we are,”’ will say “look at the other fellow.” England, with two million unemployed, points to Germany with 2,75G;000, and Germany with 2,750,000 points to the United States with five million. Russia, where the government can make every one work by the,simp)a process of cutting off rations, claims no unemployment, and says that capital is going broke, not pausing to argue the accuracy of the figures, they obviously are being used to satisfy local pride. tt tt tt Hide Behind Barriers IT is an easy step from local pride to demands for protection, the men who consoles himself with, the thought that his children have only the measles while his neighbors’ children have the smallpox soon howls for a quarantine. By the same law of logic, we find statesmen, everywhere advocating higher tariffs. In other words, the idea that one country can be made prosperous at the expense of others, that domestic trade can be isolated from foreign trade, and that people can serve one another best by walling themselves in is growing danger- ’ ously popular.

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STEAM NAVIGATION Aug. 11 ON Aug. 11, 1807, Robert Fu’top won recognition as the first man to make steam navigation commercially successful when he sailed his steamboat, the Clermont, up the Hudson river from New York to Albany, a journey of 150 miles. In the presence of thousands of astonished spectators, the Clermont started on its epochal trip, making an average speed of five miles an hour, which was considered a great achievement. It took thirty-two hours to reach Albany. When Fulton first proposed the idea of steam navigation he met with rebuke on all sides. As he himself said: “When I w’as building my first steamer in New York the work was viewed by the public either with carelessness or contempt, as a useless scheme. “Mv friends, indeed, were civil, but they were shy- As I had occasion to pass daily to and from the building yard while my boat was In progress, I often loitered unknown near idle groups of strangers, and heard them scoff and sneer and ridicule. . . My work always was spokep of as Fulton's folly.” Though he had great success m the construction of steamboats, various lawsuits in which he was en-. gaged in reference to the use of* some of his patents, prevented htmfrom ever becoming wealthy.---